By Al-Azhar Al-SharifSheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Chairman of‎the Muslim Council of Elders, held an open dialogue with a select...

By AFPThe Slovak government has decided to allow the consumption of brown bear meat, angering environmentalists who on Wednesday slammed the move as a...

By AFPEx-president Joseph Kabila on Thursday made his first appearance since returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma, an eastern city se...

By AFP/Selim SAHEB ETTABAThe US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory Friday in his immigration crackdown, giving his administra...

By AFPBrazilian prosecutors are suing Chinese electric car giant BYD and two contracting companies for human trafficking and alleged slave labor condi...

By AFP/Marisha GOLDHAMERThe White House downplayed questions about its flagship report on children's health, but edited the document Thursday after au...

By AFPThe cash-strapped United Nations could slash 20 percent of jobs -- or thousands of positions -- in its executive arm under ongoing reform plans,...

By AFP/Gregory WALTONThousands of Harvard students in crimson-fringed gowns celebrated their graduation Thursday, as a judge extended a temporary bloc...

By AFP teams with Alice Chancellor and Christophe VogtIsrael on Friday said Hamas must accept a hostage deal in Gaza or "be annihilated", and threaten...

By AFPAvowed misogynist and radical social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother have been charged with several counts of rape, assault and tra...

By AFPIraq's water reserves are at their lowest in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said Sunday, as its share from the Tigris...

By AFP/Fabrice Coffrini, with Christophe VogtSwiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village...

By AFP/Stuart WhiteIsrael announced Thursday the creation of 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, drawing sharp condemnation from Britain, Jo...

By AFP/Hillary ORINDEA South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a...

By AFP/Shaun TANDONThe United States said Wednesday it will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans' social media posts, as President Do...

By AFPIraq's federal authorities have filed a complaint against the autonomous Kurdistan region for signing gas contracts with two US companies, two o...

By AFP/Anaïs LLobet, Laurent Banguet and Marjorie BoyetA French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexual...

By AFP/Michel COMTEMore than 17,000 people in Canada's western Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst...

By AFPAt least 44 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, rescuers said, a day after a World Food Programme warehouse...

By AFPAn Algerian court on Monday sentenced three former contenders for the country's presidency to 10 years in jail for corruption, a judicial source...

By AFP/Anna KORKMANA fighter jet roaring through the grey sky breaks the tranquillity of a boreal forest in northern Finland, one more sign of a growi...

By AFP/Eléonore SENSFrom his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of...

By AFP/Peter EsserA German court on Wednesday rejected a climate case brought by a Peruvian farmer against energy giant RWE, but set a potentially imp...

By AFPPalestinians living in Gaza "deserve more than survival," the United Nations envoy for the Middle East told the Security Council on Wednesday, a...